The Scintillan 84th Grenadiers are an elite Grenadiers regiment of the Scintillan Fusiliers and serve as General Derian Arkelius' personal regiment of Astra Militarum troops. They have been deployed in the Achilus Crusade to retake the Jericho Reach.
These soldiers are highly trained, modelled after the elite Ordo Tempestus Stormtroopers. The guardsmen, culled from the best and brightest of the world of Scintilla's hive city nobility, are outfitted to the last soldier with full Carapace Armour and the powerful Hellgun.
It is not uncommon to find at least one member of each squad equipped with a Grenade Launcher or some other form of heavy weaponry. Having seen minimal action during the early stages of the crusade, they were wholly unprepared for the current situation that has befallen them on Hethgard.
Even so, they fight on with incredible determination, due in no small part to their field commander Colonel Titus Rone.
Titus Rone[]
While General Arkelius is a master strategist and a decent combatant, Colonel Rone is the complete reverse. He knows what strategies will work to accomplish certain tasks, but he is an unsurpassed leader of soldiers when it is time to get down to the bones of combat.
His men adore him, his peers respect him, and his superiors fear him. They feel that one day, this man who leads the common trooper so well will usurp their own positions.
Rone currently has an uneasy working relationship with General Arkelius due to an ancient family pact that bonded the Rone noble family to the much higher-ranked Arkelius family.
Sources[]
- Deathwatch - The Achilus Assault (RPG), pg. 51